Wasabi Soy Fiddleheads Recipes

WASABI AND SOY SAUCE HUMMUS

Steps:

• Combine about 1/2 the chickpeas, soy sauce, olive oil, lemon juice, tahini, wasabi powder, garlic, and black pepper in a blender; blend until smooth, scraping down the sides of the blender bowl with a spatula to assure ingredients fully integrated. Scrape mixture into a bowl.
• Put remaining chickpeas into the blender, reserving 5 to 7 individual beans for later use. Blend until smooth, adding reserved liquid from the cans if moisture is needed to get them smooth; add to the prior batch and stir.
• Make a shallow pool in the center of the hummus with the back of a spoon; garnish with reserved chickpeas and a small amount of olive oil.
• Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 1 hour.

SALMON WITH SOY-HONEY AND WASABI SAUCES

Steps:

• Marinate salmon:,
• Stir together mirin, soy sauce, vinegar, and ginger in a shallow dish. Add fish, skin sides up, and marinate, covered, at room temperature 10 minutes.
• Preheat broiler.
• Make sauces:
• Boil soy sauce, honey, and lime juice in a small saucepan, stirring frequently, until thickened, about 4 minutes.
• Stir together wasabi powder and water in a small bowl.
• Broil fish, skin sides down, on oiled rack of a broiler pan 5 to 7 inches from heat until fish is just cooked through, about 6 minutes.
• Serve salmon drizzled with sauces.

SOY TUNA WITH WASABI MASH

Steps:

• Mix together the soy sauce, vinegar and sugar. Pour over the tuna and marinate for at least 20 mins or up to 2 hrs in the fridge. Place the potatoes in a pan of lightly salted boiling water, then cook for 10-15 mins until soft. Drain well. Heat the milk in the pan and mix in the wasabi, return the potatoes to the pan, then mash until smooth. Stir through the spring onion and keep warm.
• Heat a non-stick griddle pan until smoking hot. Remove the tuna from the marinade. Cook on the griddle for 2-3 mins on each side until seared on the outside, but still pink inside. Cook the broad or soy beans according to pack instructions, then serve alongside the tuna and mash.

STEAMED FIDDLEHEADS WITH HORSERADISH SCALLION SAUCE

Steps:

• In a steamer set over boiling water steam the fiddleheads for 5 minutes, or until they are crisp-tender, transfer them with a slotted spoon to a bowl of ice and cold water to stop the cooking, and transfer them to paper towels to drain. In a small bowl whisk together the yogurt, the mayonnaise, the lemon juice, the mustard, the horseradish, the scallion, and salt and pepper to taste, whisking until the sauce is smooth, and serve the fiddleheads topped with the sauce.
• To clean fresh-picked fiddleheads
• Snap off the crisp, bright green fiddlehead tops from ostrich ferns, leaving about 2 inches of stem attached. Rub off the dry brown casings by hand or put the fiddleheads in a wire salad basket and whirl the basket outdoors to remove the casings. Let the fiddleheads soak in a sink half full of cold water, changing the water several times to remove any grit or casing particles, and drain them. The fiddleheads keep, covered and chilled, for 1 week.

PRAWN FINGERS WITH WASABI SOY DIP

Steps:

• Wasabi Soy Dip: Place all the ingredients in a small pan, heat gently to dissolve the sugar.
• Set aside to cool.
• Place the spring onions, coriander (cilantro), garlic, ginger, chili, tamarind paste or lemon juice and tomato purée in a blender and blend to a smooth paste.
• Cut each sheet of pastry lengthwise into 4 strips 8 × 3 inches.
• Take one strip and brush with a little of the oil.
• Spread 1/2 teaspoon of the paste along one narrow end.
• Place a prawn over the top, with only the tail extending beyond the edge of the pastry.
• Roll up to enclose the prawn, twisting the ends together to seal.
• Cover with a clean tea towel and repeat to make 12 fingers.
• Heat 4 inches of vegetable oil in a heavy-based pan to a temperature of 350ºF or until a cube of bread browns in 30 seconds.
• Carefully slip in the prawn fingers and cook for 2 minutes until the pastry is crisp and golden.
• Drain on absorbent paper, and serve at once with the Wasabi Soy Dip.

WASABI SOY FIDDLEHEADS

Steps:

• * To Clean: In a large bowl in the sink, rinse the fiddleheads under water and dislodge the brown scales; drain and repeat. Trim the ends off the ferns (last piece on the coils).
• Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add the cleaned fiddleheads and cook for about 10-12 minutes or until they are tender; drain and set cooked fiddleheads aside.
• In a small bowl, whisk together wasabi paste, water, sugar and soy sauce.
• Transfer the cooked fiddleheads to a bowl and pour the sauce over them. Toss gently to coat and serve hot or at room temperature.